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9781568583631

Time Traveler A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality

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  • ISBN13:

    9781568583631

  • ISBN10:

    156858363X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-11-09
  • Publisher: PERSEUS
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Time Traveler is the compelling and very human story of a man whose deep childhood trauma-the loss of his father at the age of ten-propelled him toward scientific achievement. As a boy, Ronald L. Mallett threw himself into a quest to find his own Holy Grail-a means to travel back in time and save his father from an untimely death. Remarkably, the working-class African-American boy from the Bronx stuck with this vision, struggling with poverty and prejudice to become one of America's first black PhDs in theoretical physics. Mallett explains in simple language and elegant metaphors the physics that makes time travel possible, and lays out his theories and presents the reader with what is, according to New Scientist's respected editor and physicist Michael Brooks, an actual blueprint for a time machine. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Ronald L. Mallett, Ph.D., served in the U.S. Air Force for four years. He received his B.S. in Physics in 1969, M.S. in 1970, and Ph.D. in physics in 1973, all lfrom Pennsylvania State University. In 1975 he joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut, where he is a professor of theoretical physics. He has published many papers on theoretical physics in professional journals. His time travel research has been featured in an hour-long TV special, "The World's First Time Machine," as well as publications as diverse as The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, New Scientist, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe and Pravda.

Table of Contents

Prologuep. ix
A Death in the Beginningp. 1
My Secret Missionp. 9
Einstein and Mep. 19
In My Father's Footstepsp. 25
A Project Under Developmentp. 35
The Education of a Physicistp. 53
My Introduction to Lasersp. 83
Finding My Academic Homep. 97
My Expanding Universep. 107
Deeper into Black Holesp. 115
Back from the Brinkp. 139
The Sweetness of Technologyp. 155
Building the Machinep. 175
Time Travel Paradoxesp. 191
Endnotesp. 199
Indexp. 207
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